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It’s not trying to make money from me.
Same reason why I left Digg years ago…
There was a subreddit I used to be very active on that practically got nuked by the company during the protests. They kicked all of the mods off and replaced it with their own, leaving a huge mess behind.
A good number of them started over from scratch on Lemmy and I followed them here. Haven’t really looked back since
Partly it was the API fiasco on Reddit, and partly it was Lemmy that drew me in, honestly.
I’ve left discussion/chat forums before over the years when technology moved on, or the quality of discourse declined, like FidoNet, Usenet, ISCA BBS, or Slashdot. I lived my life just fine without them. Reddit was a good COVID19 distraction for me, a way to stay connected to people using a low-data phone plan. I hadn’t heard about 3rd party apps until the appocalypse. I knew that the Android app ran up the count in DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection, and the iPad app drained the hell out of my battery. (Seriously, I could watch a 2-hour movie on Netflix, and the battery would be at 96%. An hour of the Reddit app drained it to about 60%. Was it, like, live-streaming the view from my camera back to Reddit servers?) I tried Apollo less than two weeks before the shutdown, and it was marvelous. The quality of the discourse had become, just, bad, so I figured I’d just leave Reddit behind when it ceased to function.
But, I checked out Lemmy after reading about it. It was small and quaint. But, I checked it out again. And again. And again. Then, about a month after API Day, I signed up for an account and never looked back. (The big draw, I think, was users who view comments as a discussion, not as a form of verbal combat that you “win”.)
Another API leaver here. I’m curious what their non-bot population was pre and post dumbassery.
Reddit API change. Reddit is unusable on mobile without 3rd party apps. I used Joey, which is one of the lesser known clients, so it kept working for quite a while. When it didn’t anymore I deleted all of my posts and comments before I deleted my account.
Reddit api change but indirectly.
The 3rd party app closedown led to tons of weird niche subs showing up on popular, and their mods were quite silly, and several sub bans later, a complete ban for defending Palestine.
From what I’ve seen, that last bit might get you some negative responses here, too. Unless you picked your instance well, it might cause you trouble with your account, too.
It has yeah.
Doesn’t matter, fediverse is so wide that if I end up on an instance like that, I’d like to be banned so as not to even accidentally go there again.
Hell, I could put up my own instance if I wanted to.
Cookies, I am still waiting
Sync switching, aka the reddit APIcalypse
Curiosity
Once upon a time there was a website called Digg……
I do not want my information filtered through an opaque algorithm. My worldview is much too important to surrender to some corporation. I want to understand and have some control over any feed I use. My media diet includes Lemmy, AP news, PubMed/science journals, and conversations with friends and coworkers.
I am very happy with Lemmy so far. Some have pointed out there is less content on Lemmy, but that is a bonus in my book. It is not healthy to spend hours scrolling.
Another arrival due to APIpocalypse and the enshittification process that Spez started with Reddit.
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